You know how everyone always says that college is the best time of their life. Well I beg to differ. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy my time here for the most part, but it is just like the rest of your life. There are obstacles and challenges that are thrown at you which you have to brush off and wake up the next morning and try to learn from.

If you ask almost any adult, they would most likely say that they would give anything to go back to college to relive one more year. Whether they say this because they didn’t have to stress about the same things as most students today do or because they realized they haven’t seen most of their college friends since they graduated, is a mystery to me.

Like I stated early, it is just like any other part of life. There will be obstacles. A good way of describing it is by asking you to choose two of the three options: social life, school work, or mental stability. Good luck with that choice.

There will be a diverse group of people that you will meet; some people you meet you will want to see every day and some people you can’t stand to even look at. Some of these people will be your professors (or in the real world, your bosses.)

Then there is the idea of having to get an internship so that you are well versed and prepared before entering into the work force. On average, 1.5-1.8 million students graduate from college each year. That means you have to make yourself stand out in front of those million other students in order to get that dream job; therefore, prior work experience is a huge advantage. e.g. internships.

Finally, the idea I believe most people forget about is the leadership positions which jobs/grad school/medical school wants to see on a resume.

So not only do we need to be a good students, be well versed with the different programs and equipment we will be working with in our years after college, and hold a leadership position on campus, but we also have to stay sane in the course of all this. Ha! I say to all of you out there: Good luck!

At this point it probably sounds like I hate being in college, but that is not true. I love having the ability to be independent and spread my wings to show my parents what an amazing job they did raising me. I love meeting the new people on campus on a daily basis, and I love staying active throughout my day by joining different clubs and groups.

However, I don’t like the fact that everyone says it is the time of their life and that they would do anything to come back to it. I think every day should be the time of your life; not just these four short years in college. After college people get this notion that you can’t have fun anymore because that’s not what adults do. That’s not true. Make every day worth living. Go experience the world around you and don’t relish on those four short years. Instead, look towards the future and find the passion that keeps you moving forward each and every day.